Nazis

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Literary Setting Margery Lawrence
The House on the Wall, about a woman who is hanged for hiding two prisoners of the Nazis , takes place in Rachau, Austria, under Gestapo rule. ML features voodoo in Chi-Chi...
Textual Production Cecily Mackworth
Cecily Mackworth made her name with her book I Came Out of France, a vivid first-person account of the fall of France to the Nazis and its immediate effects on the civilian population.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited.
Textual Production Cecily Mackworth
CM 's slim volume Czechoslovakia Fights Back was published, one of a series entitled Europe under the Nazis, covering countries from Norway to Yugoslavia.
Bowker, Gordon. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. The Independent.
Sheridan, Anthony. “Obituary: Cecily Mackworth”. Guardian Unlimited.
Residence Cecily Mackworth
After France was liberated from the Nazis , CM first visited Paris for a month of delight in late 1945.
Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman.
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She was back there in spring 1946, in England again and in Wales that...
Material Conditions of Writing Cecily Mackworth
CM was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler . It was understood that the Nazis
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Cecily Mackworth
Czechoslovakia Fights Back, printed on flimsy wartime economy paper, is a moving document. Its opening sentence runs: Czechoslovakia was the first non-German country to experience a Nazi occupation and has thus had longer than...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ethel Mannin
In Berlin she mourns the end of Weimar Germany's promise of sexual freedom. She laments the passing of individuality and freedom, the assertion of a tyranny that has even the power to interfere in the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edna St Vincent Millay
This volume is composed mostly of personal love poems (some of them dating back to 1932), in a different strain from the contents of Wine from These Grapes, which Millay had intended as a...
Material Conditions of Writing Edna St Vincent Millay
She had written it from a sickbed and it had appeared in New York daily papers immediately after the fall of Paris to the Nazis . It now carried her statement, at her publisher's suggestion...
Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
ESVM 's last work in a theatrical medium was her indignant radio play in verse about the Nazi killings and deportations at Lidice in Czechoslovakia, which was broadcast throughout the United States in later 1942.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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Textual Production Edna St Vincent Millay
Four months after Nazis massacred the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, ESVM 's long, dramatic verse narrative The Murder of Lidice was broadcast by NBC throughout both the USA and war-torn Europe.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
470
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Nancy Mitford
NM is less concerned to depict the evil than the stupidity inherent in fascism and nazism : I don't quite know what an Aryan is.Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link...
Textual Production Jan Morris
JM made another foray into fantasy with Our First Leader which satirically envisages a German victory in the second world war, with Machynlleth as the capital of a Nazi Wales.
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Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber.
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politics Willa Muir
Their brief was in particular to assert the independence of the Scottish branch of PEN from the English branch. Having spent a good deal of time in Europe without paying close attention to the political...
Occupation Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
FWN was appointed at age 24 to the chair of classical philology at Basel University . He is unique among German philosophers for having become nearly a household word outside the academic world, thanks in...

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By June 1997: Anne Michaels, Canadian author of two poetry...

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By June 1997

Anne Michaels , Canadian author of two poetry collections, won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her first novel, Fugitive Pieces, 1996.

After March 2006: Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, an unfinished,...

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After March 2006

Irène Némirovsky 's Suite Française, an unfinished, two-part novel about the Nazi occupation of France in 1941-2, reached print in English translation sixty-four years after composition.

15 June 2007: Tatiana de Rosnay, born in France in 1961...

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15 June 2007

Tatiana de Rosnay , born in France in 1961 to an English mother and Russian father, published her first and most famous English-language novelSarah's Key, which in 2015 had sold nine million copies around the world.
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